Category Archives: From the field

Hopefully, these posts will help you avoid some pitfalls on your journey to the cloud…

Increasing vSAN Resynch / Rebuild Performance

Posted on February 4, 2018 by

Overview Rebuild / Resynchronization time is one of the things I have seen jump up and bite customers on the ankle over and over…  When you distribute your storage across multiple hosts in a hperconverged cluster, the arithmetic and physics … Continue reading →

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The New Reality for VMware and VMware Customers

Posted on October 9, 2015 by

I have had the privilege to begin to work with the Cloud Native Apps team at VMware a bit over the past couple months, and I am becoming more and more convinced that this is a topic and a trend … Continue reading →

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Mapping Virtual Machines to Datastores to Storage, Part 2

Posted on September 16, 2014 by

In a previous post, I walked through the challenges facing one of my customers during a recent outage, during which they needed to understand the mapping of virtual machines to datastores to LUNs. Due to time constraints, I didn’t have … Continue reading →

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Mapping Virtual Machines to Datastores to Storage, Part 1

Posted on September 15, 2014 by

summary of the problem This past week, I had the (unfortunate) opportunity to help provide some on-site support to a customer suffering through an outage (as a matter of fact, I am again this week).  The customer in question lost … Continue reading →

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What is ‘Bursting to the Cloud’?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

Glad you asked, and in my mind, there are different things that customers mean when they talk about ‘bursting to the cloud.’ The Wrong Way – SIMMULANTS Spontaneous / Simultaneous migration of multiple workloads to a provider due to massive … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2011 Session – Design, Deploy OptimizedSQL Server on ESXi 5

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

This is a live update from VMworld! These are just my notes during the session, please forgive the grammatical errors, I am sure I missed parts of the lecture as I am taking notes… Be sure to check out the … Continue reading →

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Home Lab 3.0

Posted on February 10, 2011 by

Finally Got it Right… For those of you who have been following my progress (thanks for sticking around), there have been some changes to the home lab setup.  You may recall, in my post last fall – Home Lab, Part … Continue reading →

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